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October 20, 2024 · 1:13 pm

Qualities of a Teacher of God

How does one discern who is a true teacher of God and a false teacher? First, a true teacher will reveal the eternal purpose of God, which is this: He is “bringing many sons [and daughters] unto glory.” God is reproducing Himself in a chosen group called His elect. They will share God’s vision of our perfection, which is spiritual maturity. It all starts with the conquering of sin and sinning in their life.

Repentance and Faith

God’s teachers will teach “repentance from sin and faith toward God.” These are the first teachings of the “the apostles’ doctrine.” They will expound to the “little flock” all seven of Christ’s doctrines. [For a deeper dive into this subject, I have written a book entitled The Apostles’ Doctrine which explains in depth the seven doctrines of Christ. To receive your copy, send your name, mailing address, and name of the book to my email: wayneman5@hotmail.com It is free with free shipping.]

His teachers will explain how to receive a new heart with a new spirit from God. This new heart obeys God’s Ten Commandments. Breaking them is sin. Unlike most pastors and teachers, they will not try to keep you a sinner. They will not limit God and His power to change us fundamentally at our core. They will show us how to “follow our example” Christ, guiding them through the “cross experience.” They will explain how we die with the sin sacrifice Christ, how we are buried with Christ, and how we are raised to walk in a newness of life–with Christ’s Spirit now within (Rom. 6:1-12).

True teachers will start by telling you that you can be like Peter, James, John, and Paul. They were sinners, all too human, and they were changed by His Spirit. So much so, that many miracles were done by the Spirit through their hands. Nevertheless, there will be many doubters and gainsayers. So, I will ask them this: If you won’t let me be like Christ, is it okay if I be like His apostles? That’s a good enough walk. They healed the sick and even raised the dead. Through their hands the Spirit worked miracles.

Laying the Foundation

God’s teachers will first lay the spiritual foundation on which a Christian is built as a habitation of the Spirit. We are the spiritual temple of God, the place for the Holy Spirit to dwell and abide.

So, what is the foundation of the temple? Later, in Hebrews, the answer is outlined in plain English. “Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection [maturity], not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works [sin] and of faith toward God” (6:1). These are the first principles of Christ’s doctrine, and they make up the foundation.

Herein lies a real checklist of essential knowledge for the Christian. A God-sent teacher can explain what “repentance from dead works” means. The God-sent office of Teacher is the Holy Spirit speaking through a son or daughter of God. They will explain how the one and only faith is Christ’s faith. There is only one faith (Eph. 4:5). And we are living “by the faith of the Son of God…” (Gal. 2:20). By His faith.

The reason there are not more of God’s teachers is because people lack knowledge of God’s purpose and plan. “For when for the time you ought to be teachers, you have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk and not of strong meat” (Heb. 5:12). God wants us all to be His teachers. But how can we be His teachers when we do not have the foundational doctrines of Christ?

The teachings of Christ in Hebrews 6:1-2 are “the oracles of God.” Because most don’t know them, they need to be taught “the milk of the word” and not the “strong meat.” The milk, the beginning foundational teachings, helps one to get stronger and more able to digest the meat of the word. A user of the milk of the word is “unskillful in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But strong meat belongs to them of full age,” for they are able “to discern both good and evil” (5:13-14).

Teachers of God will not only lay the foundation for spiritual growth, but they will also teach us how to grow. For they understand that there are different growth levels in the body of Christ. Moreover, there are different offices of God in the body to help us reach spiritual maturity. The five offices of God are apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, and teacher.

These words about His teachers are not meant to doubt the sincerity of any teacher. It is a matter of receiving the hidden wisdom and knowledge from above and then sharing it with those whom He has called. Teaching is all about The Spirit of truth communicating through a vessel, as opposed to a person speaking things about Christ. Big difference. No matter where we stand with God, we must put on humility and learn from Christ. He is the Master and Teacher. He channels His Spirit of truth through humans that He has called into His service.

May our King Yahshua use you as a teacher and prophet. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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September 19, 2024 · 9:39 am

The Shelter of God’s Heavenly Spiritual Dimension

We enter His dimension, and we immediately leave the strife and confusion of the 3rd dimension. Escaping, even momentarily, the struggles of our present earthly existence, we luxuriate in the invisible palace of the Prince of peace.

A refreshing quietness seeps into us upon entering. Yahweh is there, though He remains invisible to our mortal eyes. Yet, we feel safe, as if mystical arms like wings enfold us. He is there with us. We thank Him for watching over us.

He seems to draw closer to us in His dimension. He hovers over His children like a hen gathering her chicks (Matt. 23:37). He said that He is the One that delivers us from all our fears. He is our shield; He parries and thwarts the arrows of our enemies.

Spiritual Enemies

Make no mistake. The enemies of the children of light are spirits that fly invisibly through the air with the wind. These evil spirits are invisible drones, loading our minds with thoughts that come from the wicked one and his dark forces. Satan is the ruler of this world system. And we once walked this earth “according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience…” (Eph.2:2). Through believing, we no longer tread the dark and sinister path.

Satan has been granted license to cause chaos and despair [See Job 1:6 and Psalm 82].  If people remain in the 3-D delusion, they are persisting prisoners, trapped in a five-senses nightmare.

Being “born from above” [“born again” in the KJV], does not completely free us from our 3-D prison. However, it does allow us to see and then to enter the Kingdom of God, which is the heavenly spiritual dimension (John 3:3,5) in which we enjoy and rest. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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September 4, 2024 · 12:51 pm

Sitting With Christ on His Throne!

[Chapter 2 of the Book The Eleventh Commandment]

God’s Purpose Fulfilled

Think about it. “The right to sit with Me on My throne…” These are Christ’s words. Some will overcome all doubts and fears, and He will bid them to come up to the throne and sit down with their King and Creator!

That is a serious promise. There is no greater honor than to sit with Him on His throne. This is it. This is the highest calling that can be attained in the entire universe: to rule with Christ during the Thousand Year Reign.

But those who will sit with Him must first overcome their old nature and any vestiges of it. They must forsake all else, “put their hands to the plow and not look back” to their first worldly life. They must “sell all that they have” and “give, expecting nothing in return.” This is where He rebukes and disciplines those He loves. He commands us to be earnest about these rebukes and to repent. This high calling is the ultimate walk on this earth. This is for all the marbles. There is nothing greater.

Yet God knows our indolence. He knows that we are foolish and are “slow of heart” to believe His word concerning His plan to reproduce Himself in us. He knows that it takes time to get rid of false thinking and to begin to think His thoughts. So He reminds us. He reviews His pur-pose and plan to fulfill it. For He knows that our minds are finite, poorly attuned to the Infinite One’s thought. Our Father said as much. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways…” (Isa. 55:8).

Even when a heart yearns for the truth, when new light dawns, often that heart refuses to believe. And even if the new truth is not rejected by us, it can fade in the darkness of trials and temptations. Such is the word about God’s purpose and His plan to fulfill it. We all need a review of what matters the most to our Father, according to His own thoughts.

His purpose for His creation is to reproduce Himself. You have heard it here before, but until it becomes the lyrics to the song our heart sings, we must hear it again. God is in the process of reproducing agape Love—in us. He will use the human being to do this—not an animal or vegetable or carved pillar of stone.
Because He does all things well, He has an exact plan to accomplish His purpose. He is sovereign and knows what He is doing. To fulfill His purpose, He will fill certain human beings with His Spirit, which is unselfish divine love.

They will be led by His Spirit to seek Him. First, He will place a desire in them to know the truth about our existence on this planet. They will seek for the meaning of life and will give up their old selfish life in ex-change for a ticket to join this spiritual quest. Little by little, their spiritual Father will answer their questions of Who? What? How? When? Where? Why? He will eventually lead them into all truth and help them solve all the mysteries of God.

The Initiation

Their initiation into this new spiritual family will begin at the cross where they will willingly yield up their old sinful selfish life. And from there He may use direct revelation to unveil His plan. But most often He will reach them through His teachers of truth. For they, like the apostles and prophets, are offices of God. They are God’s gifts to His body of believers “for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ” (Eph. 4:12). They not only teach true concepts, but also help those coming up to purge out false concepts about the Father and Son.
This relationship concerning the Father and the Son is the key ingredient of knowledge that we need to fulfill God’s purpose in the earth. He will fulfill His purpose of reproducing Himself when He fills you and me with His Spirit of agape Love. The Father calls this the “manifestation of the sons of God.” He will unveil these manifested sons at the end of this age. This is God’s grand gala when He reveals His handiwork. He will use His sons to help rule in His Kingdom, to be fully established here on earth upon His return.
Unlike what many Pentecostal and charismatic voices teach, this filling us up with His Spirit usually comes slowly and deliberately. First, His presence will only come into a clean temple. He will arrive after a proper foundation of sound teachings is laid. These teachings are called “the apostles’ doctrine.” They are the teachings that the early rain apostles had in their hearts. They were Christ’s teachings; His teachings were His doctrine. And His became theirs. [Send for my book The Apostles’ Doctrine. It is free with free shipping. Just send me an email requesting it by name with your mailing address in the USA. If you live overseas, I will send you a pdf. Send to wayneman5@hotmail.com ].

The Spirit Growing

Once we are fed the “milk of the word, which is Christ’s teachings, we begin to grow into inquisitive, spiritually healthy children, growing day by day. “Growing” signifies that the Spirit is growing in us. If we continue through much study and prayer, we will grow up to become strong men and women of God, just like the apostles and prophets.
So, how does the Spirit grow within our hearts? Christ the Master Teach-er has given us several commandments. The first one is the first word He spoke to the crowds. “Repent.” To repent from sin, all must go to the cross and let our old self die with Him. And then we are raised up with Him by believing in His resurrection, now within us. Our belief in His resurrection brings our own resurrection in Him. [All of this is explained in The Apostles’ Doctrine.]
After we get this solid in our hearts, Christ gives us several more “new commandments” to obey. Many of these are found in the four gospels. These will trigger the growth of the Spirit in our hearts. Obeying these “new commandments” is like when you feed your garden rich compost. It jump starts the growth of the Spirit within us. And this Spirit is the Father, and is Love, and is the fulfillment of His purpose of us becoming like the early apostles and prophets and Christ Himself. He said that we would do “greater works” than the miracles that He had performed.
Finally, obeying Christ’s commandments insures His growth in us through His abiding presence in us. “For without [Him] we can do nothing.” Obeying His “new commandments” enables us to obey the 11th Commandment: Love others the way Christ loved all of us. Kenneth Wayne Hancock

[This is Chapter 2 of my book, The Eleventh Commandment. If this chapter quickened you and stirred you, don’t miss your opportunity to receive your own copy. It is free with free shipping. Just send me an email: wayneman5@hotmail.com Include your name and mailing address and the name of the book.]

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August 27, 2024 · 9:59 am

Finishing the Father’s work

Miracles Performed in the Invisible Dimension

We are chosen by God to finish His works. It is the Father’s will that we do so. “Works” are from the Greek word ergon, meaning “deeds, things done, including miracles wrought.”

The work of God is to “believe upon him whom He has sent.” He does miracles so that we may believe that the Father was and is dwelling in the Son. For only the Father can do miracles through His Spirit and power. So, when miracle power flows through the hands of his sons and daughters, onlookers will know that it had to be God that worked the miracle.

Miracles are sanctioned and performed so that people will believe that God has manifested Himself in human form. That entails salvation, justification, sanctification, and glorification. “The Father loves the Son… and He will show him greater works than these that you may marvel” (John 5: 20).

These miracles are the works that the Father has given to the Son to do. We are spiritual members of His body. Therefore, we are to do those same works/miracles. For the body of Christ is the “fulness of Him that fills all and all (Eph. 1:23). The works which the Father has given me to finish, the same works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father has sent me” (5: 36).

Christ raised up Lazarus from the dead so that the onlookers would believe in Him, and that the Father had sent Christ (John 11: 42, 45).

The miracles were performed to give testimony that the Father sent Christ and dwelt in him fully.  Christ said, “My food is to do the will of Him that sent me and to finish His work.” The Father has sent us to do His works in the earth, also.

His works are the miracles that he has done and will do. But these miracles performed by Christ and us His body are not a fireworks display; they are not something to just “ooh and ahh” over. God has a specific reason for performing them. He is raising us up and will use His elect to finish the Father’s work in the earth.

“To finish” is to complete, to bring to maturity. These works/miracles are done in the invisible heavenly spiritual dimension. When we receive our 100-fold spiritual bodies, we will be fulfilling Yahweh’s purpose of reproducing the agape Love which is himself.

[Thank you for all your support, your “likes” and “comments.” His plan is for us to grow toward maturity and the harvest coming in the “time of the end.” The full expanse of the Kingdom of God is coming, coming more and more strongly in our hearts and mind.

For our fight is a struggle against the spiritual dark forces of an invisible realm that the prophets, apostles and Christ Himself spoke of. These forces are actively trying to prevent us from being what our Father says we are. They work through thoughts; they are unhinged spirits, unleashed into the ether of our 3-D world. They are the rulers and princes of the air. In our battles with them, we must cleave to our Captain who will grant safe passage through “the valley of the shadow of death.” For He is with us, and He is in us and we in Him.]

Keep this spiritual dimension in mind when you read and study the Holy Bible. The scriptures will open a door into your understanding of what our Father intends to do and be, and how you and I fit into His purpose and plan to accomplish all of it.

Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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August 22, 2024 · 8:46 am

The Kingdom of the Spirit

Only through the Narrow Gate do we enter the heavenly spiritual dimension. That gate is Christ Himself. Christ said, “I am the door of the sheep…” (John 10:7, 9, 2). We enter through the narrow gate/door into the Kingdom of God (Luke 13:24, 29).

But the phrase “kingdom of God” has lost its meaning through overuse. Every denomination spins it differently. Consequently, what does the Supreme Being’s written word say?

The word “of” has several meanings. The phrase “kingdom of God” can mean “God’s kingdom.” It can also mean “a kingdom comprised of Spirit.” For example, the phrase, “a wall of stone,” says nothing of possession. It means “a wall made of stone.” Therefore, the phrase “kingdom of God” could very well mean a “royal government comprised of Spirit,” as in “God is a Spirit” (John 4:24).

He is an invisible Spirit, and He wants us to worship Him in Spirit and in truth. He wants us to join Him in His spiritual realm called the Kingdom of the Spirit. We cannot worship Him with material accoutrements. We must leave the old world of our five senses and strive to enter His Heavenly Spiritual Dimension. It is prayer that reaches into his heavenly dimension.

The Kingdom of God, then, is the Kingdom of the Spirit. The word “Kingdom” here may be understood as the invisible dimension where both miracles and spiritual battles take place. His Kingdom is a spiritual, invisible world or dimension. We are transported to it by faith. We are carried there by believing that this dimension not only exists, but also has a door or gate. And that door is Christ our Savior. Believing in His death, burial, and resurrection—in our own hearts!—begins the purifying process where we get rid of the old leaven false concepts of God.

Since “God is a Spirit, and is invisible, then the Kingdom of God equals the Kingdom of the Spirit. The Holy Spirit is the heavenly dimension. It is comprised of God, who is invisible and yet, very near to us.

Knowing this, we should “seek Yahweh while He may be found.” All of us should reach out and find the narrow gate and “come before His presence with thanksgiving.” He abides in that heavenly dimension. He patiently waits for us to believe the report of His apostles and prophets.

John heard the Father in human form. He saw Him with his own eyes and looked upon Him. He touched Him with His own hands (I John 1:1). We will find Him where He is. The King resides in His Kingdom. His future sons and daughters will hear Him, see Him, and embrace Him when they walk with Him in the Heavenly Spiritual Dimension.

At present His followers are being tested by their Father. They should “not think it strange” to have “fiery trials of their faith.” It is all part of His plan. For it is only a purified faith that will enter through the narrow gate. “That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after Him, and find Him, though He be not far from every one of us” (Acts 17:27).     Kenneth Wayne Hancock

 [Thank you for all the likes and comments. May our great King Yahshua continue to use you to sow the seeds of the gospel culminating in the harvest of His sons and daughters. We will rule with him in His Kingdom. That is the good news, the gospel. “He came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of the Kingdom of God” (Mark 1:14). Christ then begins to miraculously heal the multitudes. He was “preaching the gospel of the Kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people” (Matt. 4:23). Only in another dimension can these miracles happen.]

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August 11, 2024 · 12:24 pm

Strive to Enter the Heavenly Spiritual Dimension

The Spirit is asking us: “Are you knocking on the door that enters the Heavenly Spiritual Dimension? This dimension is the Kingdom of the Spirit, the Kingdom outside of the limitations of the 3-D World that we are initially born into. Its invisible power engulfs the old five senses, material world, the world of delusion. The invisible Yahweh inhabits this new-to-us spiritual world.”

The Spirit is saying to us: The only way into this heavenly spiritual dimension is to enter it by the narrow gate. “For wide is the gate that leads to destruction.” He is asking us, “Are you striving to enter through the narrow gate? It will lead you to that rare dimension known as the Kingdom of God. Are you earnestly seeking and knocking and asking?”

Christ commands us, “Enter in at the narrow gate, for wide is the gate… and difficult is the way which leads to life, and few find it…” Few. That is sobering (Matt. 7:13-14).

Why is the gate narrow? The gate is narrow to prevent us from trying to carry the old baggage of false doctrines into the Holy Place. [Several of these false teachings are found here: false doctrines | Immortality Road (wordpress.com)]

He tells us, “Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues” (Rev. 18:4 NKJV). He is telling all Christians to leave behind the “difficult way” of the 3-D world and enter the Heavenly Spiritual Dimension. We need to ask, seek, and knock on that door, which is the narrow gate by which we enter into his Kingdom.

For we will discover that the invisible Yahweh is a Spirit that subsumes everything else in the created realm. Standing on the earth, Christ said, “Even the Son of man which is in heaven” (John 3:13).

The heavenly spiritual dimension is the Kingdom of God. It is the Kingdom of Spirit. To prove it, Christ said, “Not everyone that says unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he that does the will of my Father which is in heaven.” Or “…which is in the Heavenly Spiritual Dimension” (Matt. 7:21).

Therefore, Christ tells us to “strive to enter in at the narrow gate.” Strive means contend, fight, and struggle with your adversary to enter in at the narrow gate. Those who do not, He will reject, and “there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth” when He receives all the righteous into the “Kingdom of God and yourselves thrust out…” (Luke 13: 24-29).

We must fight the inclination to coast through our new Christian life like a young child who is impervious and carefree and knows nothing of the battle we are chosen to fight. We are to “walk in the Spirit, the Kingdom, the heavenly spiritual dimension.” We can’t see it with the naked eye, but we must “fight the good fight of faith” and enter it and experience the same thing that His people have always experienced.

“What is that?” you ask. Let your Holy Bible fall open, and begin reading, and you will be taken to this old—yet new—spiritual dimension of which we speak. The Garden of Eden is a good example. The Holy Bible is full of those who fought and strove to enter into the Kingdom.    Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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July 30, 2024 · 11:43 am

Are You Suffering from a Betrayal by Someone You Love?

Betrayal causes severe anguish and pain. What is our reaction to this? We cry out to God. These five words are the answer to some of life’s great questions: Why do we have to physically or mentally suffer? Why do our old earthly bodies break down? Why must we “walk through the valley of the shadow of death”?

God allows “bad things” for us to suffer, so that we will turn to him. Though it is difficult for us to comprehend, it is Yahweh’s great love for us that He subjects us to excruciating misery at times in our earthly lives.

These “bad” times are designed for us to overcome. When we overcome the trials, our spiritual muscles are strengthened. This is how we grow in His infinite grace.

This is one of the great mysteries that the Spirit is now revealing to us. Why do we suffer from things that are not seemingly even our fault? Because it is part of God’s plan. His plan fulfills His purpose. He is reproducing Himself in the form of agape love in our vessels.

Those that overcome all things will sit with him on His throne, even as Christ has overcome all things.

But how do we overcome? First, we must get over the shock that Yahweh uses “evil” to produce righteous spiritual growth in us. This growth comes from understanding and knowing the hidden mysteries concealed in His plan as stated above. And we can only understand through experiencing the suffering that spiritual growth requires. This engenders forgiveness; agape love grows as we forgive each other. That includes forgiving God for putting us through the pain and anguish.

Part of this knowledge concerns the Hebrew God’s implementation of trials on us His creation. This is when many of the called fall away. They will say, “This cannot be true. How can God, who is love, allow bad things to happen?”

The apostle Paul knew the answer. The Spirit through him wrote this down: “For the Scripture says to the Pharaoh, For this very purpose I have raised you up, that I may show My power in you, and that My name may be declared in all the earth.” Yahweh had mercy on the Israelites, but He hardened Pharoah’s heart, all to fulfill His plan and purpose. The unenlightened will protest and begin to blame God. To which the Spirit replies, “But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” (Romans 9:19-20 NIV).

Crying out to God would not happen without pain. All I ever wanted as a child was a loving peaceful home. My parents were always fighting. They finally divorced when I was eleven. My world was beginning to shatter. Nine years later I worked as a lab tech in a MASH hospital fifteen miles south of the DMZ near Quang Tri. The blood and death every day completed the shattering. But the divorce and the war God used to instill in me an unquenchable desire to know the truth. Not just the truth about the war, but the truth about why we are here on this planet? And if there is a God, then, Who is He?

Yahweh used these two heartbreaks—the divorce and the war—to send me on a quest for knowledge even till today some fifty-five years later. I have forgiven my parents and Uncle Sam. And now through God’s mercy, I have slaked the bitterness I once endured. I died with Christ and now have a new heart that praises Him for His love and forgiveness.    Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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July 21, 2024 · 1:22 pm

How to Wait on God’s Timing Without Anxiety

We expect what we believe shall be. To expect is waiting for what we believe He has promised will come. But waiting is difficult for human beings.

But what shall be is what Christ, the Seed, the Word, said will be. We believe that He will grow in us unto perfect maturity. We, consequently, expect to grow. We expect to happen in our lives, what Christ said will happen: That after many trials, we shall overcome all things. For it is these very trials of our faith that trigger our spiritual growth. They make us stronger, even though we disdain them. But then, His ways are not our ways.

For example, when I go to my desk, I expect that God will give me the word of wisdom and the word of knowledge. I have no doubts that He will meet me there and deliver inspiration and understanding of His word. It has been twenty-seven years now, and the meal barrel has not run dry.

Yet, a question arises. Can we not have the same expectations when it comes to healing? Healing someone is a gift of the Spirit to us and then through us to another. But when will the Spirit give that gift through us, that He would heal through us? We all are waiting for more of His power to be manifested in and through us.

The Ultimate Wielding of His Power

Of course, we are talking about wielding game-changing power in the earth. Miracles are not just about knowledge. They are about doing. Miraculous actions will go viral in the 21st Century’s social media. We must be strong enough spiritually to survive the onslaught.

We are talking about the “high calling of God in Christ.” We are referring to the ultimate wielding of power and strength from the Spirit of God. We’re talking about bearing 100-fold fruit of the Spirit. This is when the Spirit is fully matured in us. Knowing, Doing, and Being. You must have knowledge before you can do. And it is by doing that we become our destiny.

Some of us now are turning our heads and hearts toward this calling. You and I are “waiting for the adoption… the redemption of our body.” While we wait on Him, we walk in this new knowledge by first studying and proving it from the scriptures.      

Evidently, we are not quite ready for 100-fold prime time just yet. But this we should know that “there is a season and a time to every purpose under heaven.” That especially includes the season and time for His purpose (Ecclesiastes 3:1).

We are at present the “called according to His purpose.” And we now know that His purpose is to reproduce Himself. He is Agape love, and He plants His love as a Seed in those He has called (Romans 8:23, 28). There is a season and a time for this planting and reaping. And the harvest is “the manifestation of the sons [and daughters] of God” (Romans 8:19).

Someone hearing this perhaps, is saying in their heart, “You said that we can be like Peter, James, John, and Paul, and even Jesus. That is impossible to do.”

To which I say, “You’re wrong. I’m not saying this; the word of God is saying this. The scriptures say that Yahweh knew us before we were born. He foreknew us and predestinated us “to be conformed to the image of his Son that he might be the first born among many brethren” (Romans 8:29). That is where we are heading. But there is a season and time which only the Father knows, when we will join the ranks of the manifested sons and daughters of God.

Moses Waiting on His Calling

We must “judge nothing before the time.” God revealed to Moses that the Hebrew slaves should follow him. But it was not the season nor the time for God to lead His people out of Egypt. Moses waited 40 years in exile in the Sinai desert before the call came from the burning bush. It just was not the time until then.   

Yet, Yahweh foreknew Moses and you and me. And He has given us a glorious destiny before our earthly slog began. And then, he called us. He gave us a sign that He is real. He met us where we were in the mire of sin and lifted us out of degradation into his marvelous light. Thus, we were called and justified. “And whom He justified, them He also glorified.”

Glorified! That is how Yahweh sees it. He sees us already “conformed to the image of his Son.” He sees us as joint heirs with Him. To Him it’s a done deal. Yet, for us, we wait for the season and the time. (verse 30).

Yahweh declares the end from the beginning. In the beginning we were with Him in His heart. Before we were deposited from the womb of our dear earthly mothers, He believed that we would respond. That’s His faith at work.

Consequently, God is for us! Who can withstand God and be against us? But there’s one thing we must realize before we receive our immortal spiritual bodies upon His return. We must understand that there is a certain season and time for everything—especially during the “time of the end.” That includes the time when He will work miracles of healing through us.        Kenneth Wayne Hancock

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July 15, 2024 · 9:15 am

Are You Longing to Know Christ’s Secret to a Joyful Walk?

If we listen to His “still small voice,” we may hear Him share a secret that few ever hear. It is a challenge to our present belief system. Our joy issues from His joy, which rejoices at the truth.

Right now, as we speak through these earthly bodies, we have another body. Yes, another body. It is a body that is celestial in nature. It is, in the pure sense of the word, extraterrestrial, for it is outside the scope of the earth. In fact, mortal eyes have not seen it, nor has its reality even entered into the hearts of mortals. What has not entered into our thinking? “The things that God has prepared for them that love Him (I Cor. 2: 9).

And what are those “things” that God has already provided for us? They are our heavenly bodies. And as we gaze into the mirror at our earthly bodies and lament their descent into mortality’s final sad scene, we cannot help but groan under the burden of our bodies’ betrayal of us. And we yearn for our other body to come and clothed us with immortality.

This present mortal state in which we live is the perfect environment, however, to nurture the Spirit within us. As we overcome in battle the devil’s onslaught, the Spirit within us grows with every victory. As we vanquish our enemy, who is designed by our Creator to dispense just the right amount of resistance each day, we grow according to the loving hand of our Master. Knowing about our heavenly immortal body is our ace in the hole and gives us great confidence that He has our backs. It is His ball game; He will win. He has already won in heaven, and now we are a part of the witness here on earth.

Our Victory Is Believing the Unseen

Our victories begin in believing that we have His Spirit within us, that He is guiding us, and that He loves us and wants us to grow to be like Him. He is our treasure that we now have in these weak, fragile earthly bodies. Our bodies seem to be hurdling back into earth. It seems that they want to return to the soil. Our bodies are not us, for they careen in an opposite direction than what our hearts would dictate. Our earthly bodies want to dissipate, but we want to live vibrantly in love and harmony.

Our “outward man” may be perishing, but our “inward man” is being renewed each day. Compared to the glorious future that He desires to shower upon us, our current afflictions pale in importance. Our afflictions are “the sufferings of this present time,” the sufferings we must endure that we may reign with Him (II Tim. 2: 12; II Cor. 4: 16-17).

We must not look at our mortal bodies thinking that this is all there is. There is no hope in seeing our flesh wrinkle and get old, our muscles failing of the strength of youth. Looking at our earthly bodies and pondering their demise is not faith. For faith is being assured of “things not seen,” not things which we do see.

We should not see those “things” in the mirror that stare back at us. We should rather look at “the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporary; but the things which are not seen are eternal” (4: 18). When we walk in the Spirit, we behold as in a mirror the glory of Yahweh, and we are changed thereby “into that same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit…” (II Cor. 3: 18). We will not experience this by looking at our earthly body, but by looking at those things that are not seen.

So, what are these things? These things are bodies, for it is bodies that the Spirit through Paul has been talking about all throughout the whole letter.

“For we know that if the tent that is our earthly home is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.” Most have interpreted that to mean that we are going to heaven. It actually says, however, that we have another house in heaven waiting for us. We have another body, a celestial one, a glorified one prepared for us by our Creator (II Cor. 5: 1-4).

Our earthly bodies that we see are temporary dwelling places for the Spirit of God to grow in. They are important and indispensable, but disposable. He made them that way, of course. And as the painful treachery of our bodies increases, “we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven.” Our burden is not to be “unclothed,” as in a lightening of our load, but rather “clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.”

Thus, the Spirit speaks of our heavenly body as clothing. As we ponder the word “clothing,” we see where He has promised the over comers clothing called “white raiment.” We see a picture of this in the transfiguration of the Son of God when “his face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light.” We see a picture of us after being clothed with our heavenly body. We look to that time when we “are changed into the same image from glory to glory.”

Faith is being assured that we have this heavenly body prepared for us, even though we cannot see the evidence of it right now with mortal eyes. This is the secret that His still, small voice is conveying to us (Rev. 3:4-5; Mt. 17: 2; II Cor. 3:18; Heb. 11: l).

[This is Chapter 16 of my latest book, The Additions to the Faith. To order your free copy with free shipping, email your name, address and title of the book to wayneman5@hotmail.com If this chapter has helped you, please help me get this to more people by you hitting the like button, commenting, and subscribing. Thank you.]

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June 26, 2024 · 9:32 am

Corrupt Church Tree Cannot Bring Forth Good Fruit

For the seeker of God, this whole spiritual walk here on earth is an everyday challenge to clear our minds of the clutter of material things that comprise our earthly existence. We need to focus on the invisible things. “While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal” (II Cor. 4:18 NKJV)

God has created our world to facilitate this. He created the adversary, the devil, as an intruding thought usurper. He raids our minds each morning with thoughts that are primarily based on visible things. The devil knows full well that once a child of God strays into the visible, material world, that child is vulnerable.

This should then be one of our main motives in prayer–to cleave to the invisible God. We need to abandon the temporary things of this world, along with this world’s god. The Spirit through the apostle Paul speaks to this. “Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth” (Col. 3:2).

Our task, then, as the children of God is to be aware of what is going on in the arena of our mind. And then to throw away every thought that does not agree with the vision of God depicted in the scriptures of truth. This prompts more questions. Which thoughts are true, and which are false about God and His plan and purpose?

Christ and His apostles warned us incessantly about false prophets who would “bring in damnable heresies.” And these heresies speak about Christ. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing.”  And many in the churches shall follow them through the “wide gate” of Christianity. Many are heading to a desperate culmination of their religious dogmas because of the false teachings.

Which false doctrines?

 So, which teachings are corrupt? Which doctrines are false? What is wrong with their teachings? In a word, almost everything.

We know that false doctrines are there in the churches, yet the purveyors of these doctrines are adamant that they are right, and most everyone else is wrong. The false teachings are there because Christ and His apostles said that they are there. The list of false doctrines in the churches is long. We can start with these: no trinity, oneness, prosperity doctrine, no rapture, pagan holidays, sacred Hebrew names, to name a few. The elect will study these false doctrines out and repent of them.

False doctrines corrupt the churches. Christ said, “a corrupt tree cannot bring forth good fruit” (Matthew 7:18). Organized denominations feed the poor and help those in need in our societies. They will have their reward. But their doctrines will never bring forth the fruit of the “manifestation of the sons of God [and daughters of God].”

False doctrines are like leaven. “A little leaven leavens the whole lump.” Leaven is false doctrines that have now permeated the whole of Christianity (Matthew 13:33).  Kenneth Wayne Hancock [For more about the old leaven and false teachings, hit this link: purge out the old leaven | Search Results | Immortality Road (wordpress.com) If this article has helped you, hit that like button and subscribe. It helps us reach more people. Thank you. kwh]

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